Exploring the Abandoned Baker Hotel - 1920's Hotel in Decay 

Jay Lew Yes 👍

Don't take this the wrong way, but these fellas weren't around when the hotel was new and booming. So, the only likely source for them to find pictures of what it looked like in its prime might be.... the internet. Since you're posting comments on here, I'm going to go out on a limb, and assume that you have access to it. Use it. Try any search engine, see what you can find. No need to report back :) Anyone else wanting to see the results could do the exact same.

Hey Jay Lew, check out this comparison video. Very cool to see. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t5e9eL9qM5Y.html

Stan you don't have many friends do you

@Russbot Apocolypse 2020 LMAO

jhankri That’s fantastic news. I absolutely love these old buildings and hearing of their renovations.

@@geetarbube hell yeah im glad to hear this especially because it has historical and cultural value very nice indeed

dear god, I don't want to be the dude paying for all of that water to be drained. there must be so much mold everywhere

Melanie G I was thinking the same thing. This place is to moldy and disgusting to fix it. The walls are too weak and nothing could be helped with this hotel. Unless the knock down this old hotel with a new one and say it’s the same thing.

roadtrippers.com/magazine/baker-hotel-mineral-wells-texas/

Fellow janitor! Some of the places I clean aren't that old and they still sound that way, or they creak like they're about to collapse.

I know you guys probably don't get much appreciation for what you guy's do and it's real crazy to me that all the places we go to are kept the way they are because of you guys, thanks for all the hard work!

@@MultiTelan Creaking is a good thing! If an old building isn't creaking, it means the structure is fully saturated and any more weight could cause it to collapse.

@@verminscum well like I said, most of them aren't that old 😆

Wow, Amanda! Bet you've had a few hairy moments!

I just went to look for old pictures of this place and saw they're doing a huge 3 year historical renovation project, due to open in 2026. I sincerely was hoping they would restore it to its former self and not make it all modernized and sterile-looking. Happy to hear that won't be the case!

Too bad you didn't post a picture of that chair...I love old furniture and things from old buildings.

@@roslynnf3104 Need maid stories? "Sept 30,1905: The work was grueling, generally unrewarding and mentally numbing. The upper class patrons were aloof and ignored me as if I was invisible." Oct 1,1905: *Same as above.

Is your chair haunted?

Hope the chair is just chillin 😁

Cool!

Katie Trimue yea lol

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Came here just for this comment. I was thinking the exact same 😆.

17:12 check out the one on the right

Katie, Nobody is a fan of vandalism, just the people who vandalize.

After being redone it should reopen sometime in 2022 !👍👻

It'll be finished in Sept or Oct...whole town is waiting

@@ghostcityshelton9378 damn I was tryna explore it

Yikes true my friend. Condolences about your father and much strength to your sister she doesn't deserve that,all she did is wash her husband's work clothes.

Good idea, and thanks for your consideration for these guys

When your young and bulletproof and you think “that won’t happen to me”.... A couple of exposures, while not good for you wont necessarily lead to asbestosis or mesothelioma; the amount of exploring these two do, they really should wear charcoal filter masks, and I’ve commented saying that. But hey, it won’t happen to me, right?!

A+ and thanks for the warning.

This is fantastic advice from a very smart man.

No kidding? I'm so glad to hear that.

64 million and intend to mix new ideas but continue the mineral bath. It is slated to reopen in 2022. Ill be there.

will never happen

@@wesgore8016 I bet this plan falls through. As most remodeling projects seem to be anyways.

This is true, I live in Mineral Wells and the reno has begun.

I read $65M

@@BA-ef4pr honestly that seems like a pretty low estimate

998 billion@@Weimerica8841

They keep going it will happen, especially in old industrial plants. Then the property owner will get sued by the parents.

i pray for their safety & health regularly ;-)

Who knows,it might be that or eventually the exposure to asbestos will get them.

@@chazzcoolidge2654 not to mention the mold piling up in these places. Moisture in an abandoned building eventually leads to black mold and nasty lung issues.

Me too. As a viewer I love the vids, as a mom of a boy, they make me nervous every time. Be careful guys. 😮

hahaha...good ,,, made me laugh ...

Local officers in my area get called to an old abandoned church all the time. They HAVE to go in and search each time at gunpoint. So now by law people get cited if they don’t secure their properties because it’s a safety issue.

🤣🤣

Dr. Jellyfinger is that the only time you eat donuts 🍩 for 20 minutes ?

I thank you very kindly for your service to the community and your dedication to police transparency!

@Tom 2020 Hello Tom, yeah, Proper People are good. Did you see their Q &A the other day? Really good. I like vids like this, as long as they're quality! Abandoned World Explorer (from London) is quite good too. Hope you're keeping safe, wherever you are in sunny England! 😁🇬🇧

Yeah I hear that. I do believe in ghosts and have had experiences. But how is it that explorers on some channels seem to have crazy shit happen every single time, and others never have any ghostly experiences?

Lucas, my thoughts exactly

I remember them in motels back in the early 80s

ARCHIEANGELinOH it’s fucking asbestos and shit! Run, run for your lives!

I have glitter popcorn ceilings in my home 😂

Typically popcorn ceilings don't have the glitter. The glitter generally only comes with asbestos.

I know in some old buildings it's glass flakes

I really hope C19 doesn't put a damper on things.. How lovely it will be to have it restored.

@@InnerPeaceBeauty it's still being renovated, but hoping it'll be done soon

Actually he was born in 1902 so he would be 55ish. He died at age 76 in 1978

That may have been his father you are referring to, because Aubra M Cooper that I found in my above post was born in 1928.

It was written in 1967 not 1957

SpeckOfDignity Me too, then I looked up "ASMR Walking On Gravel" to help me sleep when I can't sleep.😊

Muze Rhythm I'm one of the first people to ever make asmr :)

So cool!

Oh?

Source?

Wiki...

Would like to see photos when finished

… along with Dan Bell…

Ikr

Have you considered Logan Paul lol

I agree, but also check out Exploring the Unbeaten Path - I found their videos the other day and binge watched every one in 2 days. They are amazing

Lateralus180 Thanks for the recommendation. I’m interested to see what they have to offer

What?

Maria A. What are you saying "what" for?? She made perfect sense!!

celecia 😹😹😹 I thought the same thing!

Couldn't agree more. I hate videos with that annoying background music.

These guys videos are more entertaining, than others. They do proper job with these vids.

When we are little, we can see things like that girl, as we age, our spirit receptors go away. Some lucky ones keep it.

That does sound like a horrifying experience

@Gaming Wizard I'm almost completely deaf and only have one arm left so My best friend always takes me with him everwhere since I'm a photographer :D *(abandoned hotels,hospital, factorys,schools and sometimes asylums)* *(An explanation ^^^)* We went to this abandoned mental asylum who was rumored to have been experimented on and as i previously said I'm almost completely deaf *(i can hear beeps and whistling sometimes)* and only have one Arm and i got lost? If that makes sense i didn't realize my best friend had turned a corner and i kept walking taking pictures so logically i got lost and somehow found myself in a ward that i think was for the older people like 50-80+ *(i hope this is all understandable! There were 3 wards from children-teenagers to adults and then older people)* and listen i have crippling anxiety problems and a tendency to get overwhelmed and experience panic attacks really fast, i couldn't breath or well stared hyperventilating and suddenly i feel someone tapping me on my shoulder! Me being deaf got the scare of my life so when i turn around there stands this slightly bigger older lady holding her hands up *(I'm 4'11 that's why i said bigger she seemed to be maybe 5'2 if i do remember correctly definitely a good bit taller than myself)* now I'm a paranoid person that does sometimes believe in paranormal activity but in that moment i didn't really think about i thought she was homeless because she did look a bit unkept and dirty but her clothes seemed relatively clean, she was wearing something that looked like maybe a turtle neck and jeans now it was almost fall but it was a warm day so i didn't question it as much as i maybe should have okay? We we're trying to communicate with hand gestured to both keep calm because homeless people regardless of how old they look can feel threatened and attack you and i gestured to my ears and was shaking my hands and you know what she does after a while of thinking i guess? she gestures to her throat and shakes her head now thinking back i have to kind of laugh because what the fuck do you do when you have a deaf and mute in mental asylum with one being on the brink of a panic attack? She knew because she started signing she knew sign language god was i remember being relieved like nothing because you don't meet a lot of people that know sign language but i guess considering she seemed to be mute it made sense that she knew how now it took a bit to explain because i only have my right hand and that meaning i sign slower now her sign language seemed to be rusty because some things i couldn't understand or she left words out i did understand that she was asking me what I was doing here and i told her my friend wad interested in bringing light into what happened *(He's a journalist)* and i was here to take photos of this tragic place, i alos told her i got lost and showed her a photo of my best friend i made on my camera and she decided to walk with me around till we found him so a bit later not much talk besides me sometimes photographing and sometimes saying that it looks beatiful given it's history *(i can talk but I've lost my confidence in my voice since i can't hear it)* and then she says she hears a young man which i hoped of course was best friend and we turn a corner and there he is! I was fucking relieved. But as i went to introduce my new friend i notice she's gone now listen i understood maybe sje got scared my friends 6'6 and heavily tattooed, i told him what happened and he at first didn't belive me because he kept saying he didn't hear anybody, no second pair of footsteps nothing now i thought he was just trying to prank me so i insisted we get something for her as a thank you *(blankets, essentials, water, and winter clothes)* he still thought i was crazy but i guess he just gave up and we went back and we literally searched for and hour and up for her but couldn't find anything *(i still believed she was homeless and thought she moved on or something)* while we searched my best friend found old files he took with him to look at later now we went home and all that, i was editing pictures he was going through articles and the files and he asked me if i could look at the pictures and try to save them and get them back to a good quality, he transferred them onto his computer, send me the pictures now i was editing them etc. And suddenly I'm looking directly at the sweet old lady that helped me i of course was excited i could show him who i saw maybe *(I'm sometimes really slow)* and i started telling him she's the women i saw and he just stops me and tells me that she's one of the victims of the experiments *(if i remember it correctly they wanted to know how much the human mind could take before breaking, it ranged from mental/physical torture to putting them on drugs and in scary situations)* that had died from said experience and i was shocked i definitely saw her! *(this all there was to it)* Now thinking back it was weird that she was underdressed and seemed almost dirty but her clothes were clean and that she just vanished but while it's a bit creepy i also realized i never felt threatened or uneasy. i was startled of course when she scared me yes but otherwise i was completely calm since i met her which is weird for me since i am extremely anxious and skittish around strangers thinking back I'm just grateful for whatever the women was or is that she helped me because i could have seriously hurt myself. *(this was almost 1 and a half years ago i know it sounds like it's been 30 years since the encounter :D)* *(i never really told that anyone besides my best friend who was there but seeing you're comment kind of just-i needed to let that out i was 17 at the time now i am 18)* *(what i mean is i understand what you saw and i believe you)*

Shareef Naeem it was a i think before I moved to my recent house I was being haunted by her. I have 2 other paranormal activity encounters that weren’t very great

Josefine Bergmann WOW. I’m really happy you were lead to that spirit and not another. With the girl I saw, when we left and moved to another house, I think she followed me. Because when I was still little I had a few more encounters. I never saw her face but I always felt her presence. All of the encounters stopped when I turned 10 (3 years ago) so I’m thinking that when I wasn’t fully a kid anymore she didn’t like me much, and went to a new kid.

10:57 I tried finding out more myself, before I read your comment. You're much better at it than I am!

That was quite interesting information..Thank You!

Great work! I love to think of him writing that note....not knowing that all these years later there'd be such a thing as "The Internet" and a lot of strangers would be looking at his words and hearing all about him.

Painted on sept 11

This is so cool to see in the comments. Thanks!

The ballroom at the top is the best part.

yettobseen According to people in the comments, it seems they want to touch up the place for using it again in the future.

I'm betting $100 they restore it to 1929 design and not 1972 so that popcorn glitter ceiling and shag carpeted elevators are outta therez

yettobseen facebook.com/thebakerhotel/

Not something new, unless you mean medical advancement. It's not like the Hilton chain or the Marriott built a competing resort and everyone started going there. People went there for the medicinal waters and probably family and friends went with them. That bubble popped and the hotel could not sustain.

That's not glitter, it's asbestos.

? oh yeah I know why that sounds familiar to me now this hotel was on Ghost Adventures.

? That’s crazy lol I have no doubt it’s true but to live in those times would have been an interesting experience.

Only problem was she jumped off the wrong side lol the pool is on the other side of the building

@@Bossilini24 damn she had to be fucked up!!

@@ColonelCarnage I thought the same thing but i don't think they went into it in nearly as bad of a state as it is in the video

You have to carry plastic explosive.

I will safe you..

Getting lost is worse

@@Joe050 "I will safe you.. " Isn't that what your mother said to you?

@@tallswede80 No it was your Mom 😉

Me too, Rhonda.

It's claimed to be haunted. A pregnant woman killed herself there when it was open and somebody died trying to jump into the pool. He missed.

What background info? These guys walked around and described what the camera was showing. At one point there was water running and the guy commented about "glitter on the ceiling". There are civil engineers who do urban exploring that provide WAY more background info.

Mike Noss: I, too, am one who loves the night, and frequently feel as you do. You expressed the feeling so exactly and eloquently. Thank you.

12:31 am.

Maybe you feel nostalgic about the past from a past life that sense of knowing

I know how you feel.

Same and it's 12:35 am

Cody Prine , umm hmm. Do you also notice people pushing alkalized water as a cure all?

Yup

Yes I noticed that too birth and death all about water

I noticed people pushing weed and essential oils as cure-alls

I was actually wondering about that. I was curious to know if the water was coming from the mineral water tap they installed or if the city just didn't notice a ton a surplus water being wasted. I didn't think it could be tons of rainwater since it's not raining. Interesting.

Yep.

David Martin thanks, i thought i was wrong thinking it was a printingpress😂

Lmao ikr how dumb can u be

Katie Eubanks you're a dick

all they did was read the label they’re young men who obviously weren’t around in those times and has other things to do like providing us videos on abandoned places to be doing specific research on a old machine

echo's of the shining

LOL

Cheyna Holmes 🤣

HA HA GLITTER ON THE CEILING!!! sounds like the LOOOOOVE SHAAAAACK.

the vandalism makes it prettier

@@auneakeffect why? Only a sick mind would think that

Me too! It killed me seeing all that water! That is heart wrenching to me because I know that building cant keep standing and it leaking like that. IF ONLY somebody could just fix the roof. There is just too much history there to tear it down or to let it fall

Well considering some buildings that have graffiti over graffiti this wasn't that bad especially there wasn't any graffiti on the first floor. You should see some of the old buildings Omar and James have gone into

@@59Lemony It becomes part of the history of the building, though. I mean, I do agree that nobody should be smashing these old buildings to bits, but they're gonna do it anyway, and each time someone comes in there to do so they add their own paragraph in the history books of that site.

"They" only need $63 million to get started on the renovation. Pony up.

very cool! www.thebakerhotel.com

Oh SWEET!!!

Can I still go explore do you think?

I live 20 minutes from the place but I want to go see it

Peyton Aaron you can only walk around it outside they blocked off all the access areas to get in :\

Andrew Hallett-Patterson they have a fb page. And they do a ghost walk there as well. Looks like they may restore it 🙌🙌🙌 m.facebook.com/thebakerhotel/ m.facebook.com/TheBakerHotelGhostWalk/

MiMi : Thanks bro. I appreciate the links. 👍👍

Andrew Hallett-Patterson i

Hilarious

Cro Minion 😂😂😂

Timestamp?

@@sanbornolsen 12:38 for the guy, 15:35 for the Kraft Single. 👍

@@crominion6045 I would frame that single

Tracy-Lynn McCoy Way too damaged.

@@ChrisDragotta Go back and look again: www.thebakerhotel.com

They are doing it now. Some company bought it and there is a YT channel dedicated to it.

The glittery popcorn ceiling is a dead give away for asbestos... this video made me cringe for these dudes.

@Just Lee it's new to you because it isn't true...lol they still put glitter in sprayed ceilings

try looking up what fiberglass does to you instead of being a broken record repeating lawyer cases... next your going to tell me that my fuel cans need a "flame arrestor" because you can pour gasoline on a fire... also btw you have to be working with this stuff for years day to day to have health problems from it... walking around in such an environment is not going to do anything unless there is clouds of it in the air...

Asbestos is fine, until it is disturbed....then becomes the problem.

Zak is irritating. I can't believe how cool he seems to think he is. Not.

Omg fuck Dildo Baggins! I LOATHE that guy

@@loditx7706 Zack is easily the most irritatingly, annoying person...he loves himself..i mute him but that's not enough

That would be a great show without that ass hat. Now they just recycle their shit and call it “extra pulses”

@@ojsefg Zack is such a butt nuggit...how many times does he say BRO!!!...somebody flush Zack down that ghost toilet

Karin Scott I live not far away and visit the city frequently. The place has new owners who are renovating in the coming years. More than likely, it is not “done”

@@scottriehm3890 I've seen this video before, unsure how it came up again and I saw the video here, then I did a search with the link to the proposed or imminent work, I wonder if it actually is going to be done or fall through, since it would be a monumental task, but it would be interesting since its a historic hotel and not a cookie cutter example of a modern building.

Bud White I agree that it is no small task. With a building that size would be difficult if it was in much better condition. If I’m not mistaken, they have been trying to raise money for ~5+ years but the fact that they are going to attempt it makes me think it’s possible

good way to get in even more trouble when the cops finally bust you trespassing; "oh, just making a RU-vid video, not trying to cause any trouble, huh? Then why are you armed?" In some states and in places like the UK, admitting that you are carrying a potentially lethal weapon like a knife for the purpose of defense is considered an admission of intent to commit murder. And in many states carrying a weapon in the commission of another crime is also illegal. And if they can't carry a gun or knife, they might as well just pick up a handy stick or brick off the floor as carry one with them. And maybe they do carry pepper spray already.

17:00 “ Great place for a party ... until someone gets drunk and goes off the edge.” -Michael

It was big in the 60s and 70s and it looks like the hotel received a renovation around then

Frost not everybody knows everything about ceiling paints of whatever. It’s not a big deal, so please call anybody names. It’s very unnecessary 🙄

@@fourearwolf3315 It's a big deal to the curious.

Thanks for that, very informative.

Alejandro González I do agree.

I'd actually go so far as saying the best. Everything's on point, including the fact the guys are mature, well spoken and respectful

The Truth I've seen channels of urban exp that are really crappy. They scream randomly, make jokes about everything, sometimes they fake about places being haunted, they add jumpscares, terrible music, etc. But Proper People is on the top of the best urban exp channels that there are on RU-vid.

Yup, totally agree man

BridgeBoiXIV Johnny Hodges baby!

@@ericcolacino1825 do you know what tune it is?

Qwerty 88 the sing that plays is pyramid which plays at the tower hotel

Bro saaame!!

Amber Simpson i thought they came here

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M8yjQN2oKJw.html

The ALL seeing ALL hearing access through smart phones. Ever notice pop up ads show things you were just talking about. With me it was 55 gallon drums. So random, now I see all sorts of things related on my phone. Didn't search on phone just talked about them a few times.

Bridgette B Loved it when they said it wasn't real cheese and you can see a bite mark, even the rats won't eat it.🤣

@Cindy Lou: any chance you can upload those videos on RU-vid so we can check them out?

Cindy Lou a

Ahh, makes sense why someone sprayed "Bonnie & Clyde's" then at around 11:14 Whoever did was probably visiting because they were intrigued about that aspect of the hotel's past

the proper people have zero street smarts lol

I went on a ghost walk of the place yesterday, and the woman claimed that there are motion sensors on every floor that send the activity to the local officers, but idk, I have doubt about that.

They were on their guards... They knew they weren't supposed to be there so it's normal to get worried.

We also have an on call dead bell hop. We also have a special on dirty bed and you guessed it... all the sliced cheese you can eat

They are actually working on restoring it now

All the building needs is an old geezer with more money than God and wants something to do with his cash.

Na,we like decay.

dave1135 i heard they were talking about restoring it a while back but idk

Shit, there's an old Sears distribution center in my city that was built around the time of this building that they repurposed for apartments and shops. Never say never.